World Cup 2010

[Got Haggis?]

fucking brilliant ending...amazing.

[godsshoeshine]

unreal

[hutch]

whoa! really got into the USA game and yelled the goal so loud my 7 month old baby freaked!

[sweetcell]

yeah, it was a pretty emotional one 

[DeathFromAbove1979]

USA won hearts and almost broke the internet:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/23/world.cup.traffic.record.mashable/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

[vansmack]

The television ratings have been through the roof too, even with the early morning West Coast starts.  This is great for US soccer.

[betao]

This gave me shivers and nearly brought tears to my eyes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbn3rOPmR9w

[slappy]

This gave me shivers and nearly brought tears to my eyes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbn3rOPmR9w

Cool, but the calling it 'The World's reaction' really waters it down. Various bars in the US and Lyon, France hardly equate to the world and just feeds into the stereotype of America being self centered.

[godsshoeshine]

calling it america's reaction isnt proper either

[betao]

I mean, they aren't trying to literally mean "the world". It just seemed like the most appropriate title for the video since it wasn't just American bars featured.

[sweetcell]

want emotion with your goals?  then listen to the spanish commentary.

[vansmack]

I cried when they scored and so did a lot of the English I was with, of course they were crying  because it meant they had Ze Germans in the next round...

We were outnumbered probably 20-1 in the  bar, but the English game had long since wrapped up by the time landycakes slid it through.  All eyes were on our match, which had mostly gone ignored at that point.  I wish I had a camera on us and our celebration with all the long English faces.  would have been priceless, though we did get a lot of free pints after that.

[hutch]

I cried when they scored and so did a lot of the English I was with, of course they were crying  because it meant they had Ze Germans in the next round...

classic and so true

[Thousand Made-Up Loves]

As much as I enjoy watching England get their asses kicked at their own game, they got totally and completely screwed on that goal. FIFA is like college football, they would rather have controversy drive ratings than honest calls on the pitch.

Of course they folded in predictable fashion after that, but 2-2 is a completely different game.

[godsshoeshine]

2-2 would have been ridiculously against the run of play though. ze germans were shreading the english all over the pitch